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Robert J. Lang Lecture at Brown University

Last week I attended a lecture at Brown University by Robert J. Lang, a renowned origami artist whose work I’ve followed for several years now. The innovations he’s accomplished in origami are...

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An Email that Could Have Been Written by My 16 Year Old Self

I get emails daily from my blog readers on a diverse range of topics. Everything from questions about what drawing supplies to buy, advice on MFA programs, and concerns about careers in the visual...

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Kicking into High Gear

Things are majorly heating up with my forthcoming project, which if all goes well, you’ll see this coming winter. This project truly is the biggest, most ambitious project I’ve ever taken on. It’s now...

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From a former student: “I never said thank you”

The vast majority of the time, I love teaching and I savor my time in the classroom with my students. A student once wrote in my course evaluations that I was “born to teach.” I even enjoy nerdy tasks...

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Last Thoughts of the Semester

I finished up final reviews with my sophomore Illustration majors in my “Drawing I: Visualizing Space” course at RISD today.  At the end of every semester, I ask my students to reflect upon their time...

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Dybbuk

Dybbuk, by Ephraim Moshe Lilien, 1874–1925 When you’re an artist, it’s so important to have artist friends who have an inherent grasp of why you do what you do.  I have a friend who was a year ahead...

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Falling on My Face

My mystery project has me learning a huge smorgasbord of skills in areas I have zero experience. Over my past decade teaching at the college level, I’ve become very accustomed to being the one in...

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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

  As a professional artist, hearing “yes” is the highly rare exception, so I think many artists have to find a way to deal with the constant stream of rejection.  In the past, I’ve always kept a...

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Wading Through a Sea of Feedback

Over the past two months, I’ve been getting tons of feedback from colleagues, former students, and friends on my project. I started the feedback process very early on, when I was only 30% done.  This...

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Less is More

When you teach, it’s one thing to know your material, and another to know how to translate that material into a digestible format that actually sticks.  Over the past few years, I’ve learned that less...

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Patience and Faith

By nature, I’m not a patient person. I’m compulsive about getting things done immediately whenever possible.  I worry that if I don’t do a task as soon as possible, that I’ll end up with an...

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Subscribe to my Email List!

You can now subscribe to my email list to receive announcements here. I only send emails a few times a year, if that, so don’t expect me to flood your inbox on a regular basis. There might be an...

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